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Consumer Tips Take Action Now Hear This: Our Blog Newsroom Fact Sheets FAQs Reports, Testimony, & Filings Guest Columns En Español International Telecommunications Are you concerned about network neutrality? Yes No I don't know		Blog Post A Voice in the Right Direction FCC Commissioner Clyburn calls out big Internet service providers on relentless rate hikes, and we like what she said. Read More Blog Post National Broadband Plan Must Address Digital Divide More than 93 million Americans are not connected to high-speed Internet at home, according to a new survey from the Federal Communications Commission. We are hopeful a soon-to-be released National Broadband Plan will tackle that problem directly and aggressively. Read More Blog Post Google's Plan for Super Fast Internet Service Could Benefit All Consumers This week Google announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We like the idea, if for no other reason than it could put pressure on Internet service providers such as Comcast and AT&T to improve service and offer better prices to consumers. Read More Blog Post Washington Must Protect Consumers in Proposed Comcast/NBC-Universal Deal Lawmakers in Washington will hopefully be asking a lot of tough questions when executives from Comcast and NBC-Universal come before them today to discuss their proposed merger. Like most everyone without direct ties to Comcast, Consumers Union think the proposed marriage of the country's largest cable company and the multi-tentacled NBC-Universal media empire is a truly lousy deal for consumers. Read More Press Release Consumers Union Raises Concerns about NBC-Comcast FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 3, 2010, Washington, DC— The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust and the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet will hold separate hearings on Thursday, February 4, about the proposed sale of NBC-Universal to Comcast, Corp. Here's why Consumers Union thinks the proposed merger is a bad deal for consumers. Read More Press Release Public Interest Groups Urge FCC to End “Digital Exclusion” with National Broadband Plan WASHINGTON, D.C., January 29, 2010 -- Citing a major new report entitled Digital Exclusion in America, public interest groups are calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to live up to the bold vision laid out by Congress for the National Broadband Plan. Read More Blog Post Guest Blog: Broadband Access and the Latino Community Latinos have a lot at stake as lawmakers and regulators in Washington tackle -- or don't tackle -- the issue of network neutrality. This piece was written by Jessica J. Gonzalez and Parul P. Desai of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the Media Access Project. Read More		Read stories that consumers have shared, or share your own personal story. AT&T wants to plant trees ... and kill vampires too WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Attention AT&T customers: The company wants you to give up monthly paper bills. Oh, and buy its new vampire-killing phone charger, too. Two months after the Nexus One, Motorola Droid to get Android 2.1 Motorola's Droid has been by far the most popular Android smartphone to hit the U.S. market, selling at a faster pace than the first generation iPhone, and making up, by some accounts, at least 15% of all Android phones in use. The FCC's broadband plan: Winners and losers The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan is meant to benefit all Americans, but not every group or company is going to be happy with the proposal. The nature of politics holds that there will be winners and losers as the government steps in to boost the quality and availability of Internet in the United States. The actual implementation of the plan could change lawmakers get their hands on it, but here’s an early look at who gains and who loses from the national broadband plan. Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI WASHINGTON — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. Nokia asks judge to toss Apple's antitrust claims Nokia is asking a federal judge to throw out Apple's antitrust claims against it, charging that they are a distraction from the real matter of dispute between the two companies--whether Apple is infringing on Nokia's patents.